Sentences with phrase «including test score data»

Drew Furedi, an L.A. Unified official overseeing the district's evaluation system, said he could not comment on the proposals because he hadn't seen them yet, but he welcomed their support for multiple measures of teacher effectiveness, including test score data.

Not exact matches

To gauge the school's success, it will rely on the data from a variety of indicators the district collects, which include several that go beyond standardized - test scores.

State officials have argued that the data will be secure and not used for commercial purposes, but the parents who filed suit are reluctant to allow the transfer, given the sensitive nature of the information, which includes demographics, test scores, behavior and suspension records and parents» contact information.

As part of New York's Race To The Top federal grant, the state is working with data integration companies to build a database of student information, including demographics, test scores and behavior records.

«To test these different hypotheses and determine the phylogenetic position of the new primate, we developed a massive data matrix including more than 1000 anatomical characters and scored for 157 mammals,» says Dr. Jin Meng.

After analysis, the images will be preserved alongside the subject's clinical data, including genetic information and scores on cognitive tests.

«To test these different hypotheses and determine the phylogenetic position of the new primate, we developed a massive data matrix including more than 1000 anatomical characters and scored for 157 mammals,» said Dr. Jin Meng.

An ongoing study that started in 1970 gathered data from 8,000 people, including their IQ test scores at ages five and 10.

The second set of data includes school - level information on test scores for certain grades and subjects, collected since the early 1990s as part of Illinois» ongoing accountability program.

Since the mid-1990s, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) has required all districts to submit data that include demographic information, attendance rates, and behavioral outcomes, yearly test scores in math and reading for grades 3 through 8, and subject - specific tests for higher grades.

Our outcome measures include Stanford Achievement Test scores and attendance rates, both of which are drawn from administrative data provided by the district.

That data ties back to other academic records, including what classes students took in high school, their grades and test scores, and whether they dropped out.

In addition to test scores in math and science, the TIMSS data include information on teacher characteristics, qualifications, and classroom practices.

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

The initial government evaluation gathered data through 2008 - 09, so the graduation rate analysis is only based on about 300 students (as compared to 1,300 students from multiple grades included in the test - score analysis).

The student data include test scores, race and ethnicity, eligibility for the federal free and reduced - price lunch program, and status as an ESL or special - education student.

West's data on Florida includes annual FCAT math and reading test scores as well as two behavioral outcomes: days absent and a measure of whether they dropped out of high school by grade 10.

The school - district data include approximately 18 million test scores.

Our data included each student's answers on each year's test; which school and classroom each student was in; each student's previous and future test scores; and demographic variables including each student's age, sex, race, and eligibility for the federal school lunch program, a widely used proxy for family income.

In addition to test scores in math and science, the TIMSS data include background information on students» home and family life as well as data on teacher characteristics, qualifications, and classroom practices.

Comparing boys to their sisters in a data set that includes more than 1 million children born in Florida between 1992 and 2002, the authors demonstrate a persistent gender gap in graduation and truancy rates, incidence of behavioral and cognitive disabilities, and standardized test scores.

And that data is extremely limited, including data such as completion status, pass / fail, and test scores.

Database participants also have access to Saint Paul Public Schools aggregate data for youth in their program — including test scores, attendance, and free - and - reduced price lunch status.

The authors match school records with test scores and administrative data, including demographic variables such as race, gender, and poverty status, as well as information on school policies, teaching staff, and hours spent in school.

In addition to test - score data, the system will include, among other things, demographic data, teacher assignment by course, and each student's course enrollment and completion.

We have included private schools, traditional public schools and charter schools in the table, as well as data from the 2014 and 2013 ISTEP + tests, so you can see if a school's score went up or down.

These data include demographic information, detailed high - school transcripts, numerous standardized test scores, and graduation and college enrollment information.

Using data from a variety of sources, including the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the High School and Beyond study, and the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972, Jacobsen and his colleagues at Mathematica essentially confirm Neal and Johnson's findings, providing additional evidence that most of the remaining wage gap is due to differences in cognitive skills, as measured by test scores.

We also linked the lottery data to publicly available CPS data on students» middle schools, including the percentage of 8th graders who scored proficient or better on the math section of the Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT), the percentage scoring proficient or better on the reading section, and the percentage of black or Hispanic students.

With 17,300 students, the district receives an abundance of information, including data from PARCC tests, districtwide pre - and post-common assessments in all content areas, Measures of Academic Progress in elementary and middle schools, Eureka Math and Achieve 3000 achievement scores, and professional - development surveys given to all teachers.

Arbogast, who taught elementary - school students, including special education, beginning in 1982 in SKSD before taking her current position, believes that using test - score data to evaluate teachers is flawed because each inherits a different set of circumstances.

In most cases, new teacher evaluations will consist of two parts: observations of classrooms, which look at how teachers teach; and outcomes on tests, including scores for students and value - added data, which measure how students progress.

Districts can use an Indiana Department of Education - approved evaluation system or design their own, but all schools must include student growth data — think test scores — as part of a teacher's rating.

Districts are required under state and federal law to provide a long list of public disclosures including class sizes, test scores, enrollment data and facility and textbook status.

What reformers should do is develop the tools that can allow families to make school overhauls successful; this includes building comprehensive school data systems that can be used in measuring success, and continuing to advance teacher quality reforms (including comprehensive teacher and principal evaluations based mostly on value - added analysis of student test score growth data, a subject of this week's Dropout Nation Podcast) that can allow school operators of all types to select high - quality talents.

For example, in addition to information on achievement (which must include more than test score data), the public needs to know if schools lack basics like well - equipped and staffed libraries, art supplies and science labs, and clean bathrooms.

Other limitations included small data sets (Kruger, 2005) and the inability to disaggregate test scores that had been compiled at the school level by individual teacher or students (Isenberg et al., 2009).

These teachers collect data from a variety of sources — including peers and supervisors, as well as standardized test scores.

beyond test scores (like SBAC state testing) to include a variety of other important topics like teacher retention, the history of superintendents, and the accountability through the new CA data dashboard.

In August, the Los Angeles Times was the subject of intense criticism and praise for its series that included value - added scores for individual teachers based on years of standardized test data — a project that newspapers in New York City now want to replicate.

Changes championed by these leaders include incentive pay for teachers based on test scores, greater school choice and new data systems that track the performance of students, teachers and schools.

Student data evangelizers argue that used correctly, data, including student attendance, test scores and demographics, can enrich education.

The data points may include math scores from the previous year's cumulative tests, scores from a beginning of year inventory, chapter test, and other classroom test results, scores from the New York State Math Assessment (s), NWEA MAP results, and teacher recommendation.

SEDA is an archive of education data, including 300 million standardized test scores, from every public school in the United States.

The Wisconsin State Journal's analysis of districts» test score data includes only students who completed the previous full academic year in a single school.

A significant number of schools that received School Improvement Grants — as many as half — were not included in the analysis for a variety of reasons, including missing data, the schools were shut down or the state tests were changed, making it impossible to compare scores over time.

Top themes that parents are looking for included teacher data, parent and family engagement, graduation and college - preparedness, diversity, grades and test scores, and discipline and safety.

We have included private schools, traditional public schools and charter schools in the table, as well as data from the 2012 ISTEP + test so you can see if a school's score went up or down.

He said standardized test scores are not necessarily the major factors in making teacher evaluations and that alternative data is vital to consider as well, including local standardized exams, portfolio assessments and teacher evaluations.

The Los Angeles pact proposes to do that using a unique mix of individual and schoolwide testing data — including state standardized test scores, high school exit exams and district assessments, along with rates of attendance, graduation and suspensions.